1773, 12 Jan Joshua Evans planter of Bertie Co to John Askew of same 200 ac joining Jacob Hill, James Burroughs, the river. Also signed by Elizabeth [x] Evans. witnessed by Walter McFarlane, William Sowell, Thomas Sowell.

Elizabeth Rayner and Walter McFarlane had:
. . Elizabeth told that when she met this Scotchman, Walter McFarlane was wearing a battle green suit and carried saddle bags as he had been going through the country buying up Government Lands.
He had a brother named Billy in Glasgow, Scotland.
They married and settled at the Nathan Cullens Place in Hertford County‚ Another story was: Once after Elizabeth McFarlane had visited a sick neighbor with choking quenzy,
a panther followed Elizabeth home in the dark from the neighbor’s house, this badly frightened her. from a paper by Preston Grissom sent me by Jim Deans